Vietnamese shares moved sideways this week as investors kept a cautious stance on uncertainty of the new US president’s policies, and they could seek short-term profits in speculative stocks that made significant gains last week.

A large tourist bus flipped on its side on a highway in Daejeon, some 160 kilometers south of Seoul, on Sunday, leaving four passengers dead and some 40 others injured, police said, source from Yonhap.

Shares edged higher yesterday on the two exchanges but the overall market condition was negative as investors turned cautious ahead of the November US Federal Reserve meeting and presidential elections.

In the second half of the year, sovereign credit default swap spreads for Vietnam and three emerging Southeast Asian nations bounced back after dropping significantly in 2014 and remaining low during the first quarters of 2015.

It’s the time when lucky envelopes sell faster in the shops than cheap helmets and the latest ‘must have’ votive paper product to burn for good luck is a Galaxy 8.7 smartphone. This is when my students are tired, not from doing homework, but selling mum’s vegetables all day for that extra money for new clothes and gifts for relatives. The cake gift packs crowd shop entrances so badly that you have to move sideways to squeeze inside and your...